Sammantha
Sammantha was last recorded in 2019, when 9 babies were given it; 1,985 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Sammantha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sammantha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sammantha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,230, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
121 babies in 1991, the peak
Sammantha peaked in 1991, when 121 girls were given it, #1,353 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | #11,230 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,562 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,001 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,097 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,034 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,998 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,860 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,536 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,514 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,456 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 33 | #4,554 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,741 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,071 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,066 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,488 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,068 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,219 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,737 | 31.2 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,686 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,229 | 39.1 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,797 | 50.2 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,813 | 48.7 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,745 | 50.6 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,649 | 53.1 |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,582 | 54.6 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,528 | 57.1 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,402 | 64.1 |
| 1992 | 116 | #1,410 | 62.9 |
| 1991 | 121 | #1,353 | 64.5 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,536 | 52.7 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,532 | 50.4 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,752 | 41.0 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,119 | 29.9 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,504 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,249 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,502 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,648 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,487 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,265 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,694 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,914 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,809 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,404 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,773 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,467 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,471 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,377 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sammantha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sammantha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sammantha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sammantha, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,985 Americans ever recorded as Sammantha. The median Sammantha alive today is 31 years old; half are between 25 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,645 people named Sammantha (1,642 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 754 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 64 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sammantha born?
The states with the most babies named Sammantha are California, Texas and Washington, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 305 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 137 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 67 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sammantha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sammantha is most over-represented in California: since 1965 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sammantha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sammantha?
Sammantha is a less common spelling of Samantha: SSA has recorded 1,985 Sammantha and 594,052 Samantha since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 597,571 babies since 1880, Sammantha is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,973 babies recorded by SSA was a Sammantha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sammantha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sammantha and names like it
- Compare Sammantha and SamanthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSammantha peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sammantha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Sammantha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Sammantha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.